The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-8.

Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :


Part-8.


Karma or action, according to the Bhagavadgita gospel, is a mysterious, comprehensive law which no doubt includes the ordinary actions that we perform in daily life, but does not exhaust itself merely in these actions.

The karmas are actions of the various individuals—psychological as well as physical, and also social.

They are the reverberations, sympathetic reactions, as it were, of a cosmic pulsation which has been set into motion by the ideation of the Supreme Being.

God’s will is operating behind your activity.

Your actions therefore are not your actions.

This one sentence can be said to be the whole of the Gita.

Your actions are not your actions.



They are the actions of that principle which sustains, manifests and withdraws this entire cosmos.

This universal impulse towards the creation of this universe is the first karma that you can think of, the great yajna that the purusha performed originally, according to the Purusha-Sukta of the

The original karma is this yajna of God.

The act of creation is the first karma; it is the real action, and all other actions are merely replicas—they are only copies, photostats, ramifications, reflections, distortions, vehicles of this original activity which can be called the only activity anywhere.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....